I think this is in my first photograph … not just a snapshot. I didn’t know it at the time (I was 9), but I accidentally framed the shot the way I might do it today. The camera was a Kodak Flash Bantam, an 828-film camera. “828?” I heard someone say. Imagine a 35mm piece of film, without the sprockets. The image fits a standard slide frame but is bigger than today’s 35mm standard. I still have the camera.
Caption: The family Kodak Flash Bantam 828 camera sits beside a color transparency I made in 1963. The 28 by 40-millimeter frame it used was larger than today’s 35mm full-frame sensor, giving this small camera a surprisingly generous negative. The camera is not functioning at this time. The 828 film was discontinued in the 1980s.